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Park, educational facilities, transit at hand. 3 rooms from $1230. 6's and 7's to $1900. POTTER HAl\fILTON & CO. INCORPORATED 15 EAST 53rd STREET. PLAZA 3-2260 III I · A ...,IJI IN PENTHOUSES A seven-room suite-the last word in design. Here you have a dear view of Central Park. the Hudson Riverand the Palisades. Sprawling terraces face three di- rections. Terraced studio. 27x17 feet; also 3 airy bedrooms. com- plete kitchen.-pantry and servant's quarters. There is a fine restaurant in the building with outdoor dining room; maid service is available if desired. One of the finest. most mod- ern homes of its size in Manhattan at a decidedly attractive rental. fayrn1t ome- 57th Street.. . West of (340 WEST) Broadway THE. CUR.R.E.NT CINE.MA The Boys Grow Older C OMEDY comes to Cagney as the years go on. As one of the pair of lunatic scenarists in "Boy Meets Girl," he is thoroughly comic. Along with Pat O'Brien, he upsets the whole studio, makes Hollywood seem far wilder than even the wildest dreams of those who never saw it, and, never letting down a moment, helps to make this one of the successful films of the season. I don't think that Cagney the comic, however, will ever achieve the success of Cagney the scoundrel, the hoodlum, the racketeer. There is pos- sibly a kind of intensity in his coun- tenance and in his manner a nervous- ness that don't quite belong in the sphere of light humor; but only at times is one aware of this, and his natural competence carries him well through any scene. Doubtless with the years he will grow gayer. He is still too young to be free of care. The Spewack play just blooms on the screen. Personally I think it's far fun- nier there than it ever was on the stage, which may seem strange, as the screen version-also by the Spewacks-close- ly follows the original version. A popu- lar idea that the studios might balk at a film which held them up to such ridi- cule was never to be taken seriously, of course, the studios being too bright for that. Nothing is spared of the hullabaloo of casting and costuming, of the little waitress whose baby is signed up for pic- tures even before it is born, of the panic of agents and extras and cowboy stars. It is parody and burlesque, and reality, too. I N "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse," Edward G. Robinson appeared as a physician whose scientific research led him into the world of criminals; now, in "I Am the Law," he may be seen as a professor who becomes, during an un- con ventional sabbatical, a special prose- cutor of racketeers. Recalling the vari- ous Robinsons, one can see a growing inclination toward the genteel and the genial. The pedagogue of "I Am the Lav."" is that absent-minded scholar, that whimsical and eccentric and be- loved professor, only slightly comic, fa- miliar to all moviegoers if not to faculty- club members. The sinister Robinson of the films has become mellow and worthy . Usual enough in its detail, this picture is a story of rival gangs, of ter- rorized shopkeepers who dare not reveal the names of the men who abuse them, of rich and respected higher-ups who really run the rackets. It's a superior product of its kind, though, well han- dled by its director and its various play- ers, such as Otto Kruger as a civic lead- er, and a real villain, too, and \Vendr Barrie as a sinning siren who had once been a newspaper girl. Most of all it is superior because of the amiable Robinson no- tion of a professor of law. C HARLIE MCCARTHY and Eddie Bergen occupy a great deal of time in "Let- ter of In trod uction," but it is not on their account that the film seems a bit long. A well-produced affair of the- atrical people and' their lives, this story depends upon an idea which is not easy to accept with much seriousness. A brave and pretty young thing (...i\.ndrea Leeds) leaves her friends in a theatrical boarding house and goes to call, she tells them, on a leading actor of the day. She has claim enough upon this gentleman (Adolphe Men jou), as the letter she carries tells him she is his daughter. He is charmed by her, by everything, indeed, except the jolt it will give his public to learn that he is a father, so both daughter and father agree to keep this a secret. She is presented to the world as his protégée. This fiction leads them both into embarrassments which form a plot notable not for its framework but for the niceness of the general treat- ment. " B CLLDOG DRUMMOND IN AFRICA" is more exciting, in case you want to compare them, than "\Voman Against Woman," as there are lions in the first and just wives in the second. I thought thIs "Bulldog Drummond" a rather good one, brisk, active, with lots of travel, bombs, and some beauti- ful escapes. The divorced wife and the new wife (Mary Astor and Virginia Bruce) fight their battles in "Woman Against Woman" over the more or less prostrate body of the husband (Her- bert Marshall) until they arrange an armistice . -JOHN MOSHER . PEKXA. MA DIES; GOT LETTER FROM F.R. -H eadline in the Philadelphia Ledger. That's why we always have our sec- retary open our mail for us